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New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Viking., 1966. 20th printing since 1963 first Bantam.1962 1st Viking.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower corner creasing, front, back. Cover small price sticker scar. Well-bound.. Namuth, Hans (Back cover B&W photo of author by, courtesy of Holiday Magazine). 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Bantam S2581. Audience: General/trade. In 1960, near age 60, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck mounted with a camper to travel the length and breadth of America. He was accompanied by his French poodle Charley. Among the stories that emerged: a hurricane in New York, sharing cognac with migrant farm workers in Maine, visiting old friends in California, attending a witches' sabbath in New Orleans. Some experiences stirred his anger; some made him proud. Portions of text appeared serially in Holiday Magazine, titled "In Quest of America". Steinbeck's 17th title published by Bantam.
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A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. "Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe." — The New York Times Book Review "Profound, sympathetic, often angry...an honest moving book by one of our great writers." — The San Francisco Examiner "This is superior Steinbeck—a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery." — John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate "The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed." — Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly
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- Title Travels with Charley
- Author John Steinbeck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 37th Printng, Ba
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Books, New York
- Date January 1977
- ISBN 9780553029666 / 0553029665
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Viking., 1966. 20th printing since 1963 first Bantam.1962 1st Viking.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower corner creasing, front, back. Cover small price sticker scar. Well-bound.. Namuth, Hans (Back cover B&W photo of author by, courtesy of Holiday Magazine). 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Bantam S2581. Audience: General/trade. In 1960, near age 60, Nobel author John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck mounted with a camper to travel the length and breadth of America. He was accompanied by his French poodle Charley. Among the stories that emerged: a hurricane in New York, sharing cognac with migrant farm workers in Maine, visiting old friends in California, attending a witches' sabbath in New Orleans. Some experiences stirred his anger; some made him proud. Portions of text appeared serially in Holiday Magazine, titled "In Quest of America". Steinbeck's 17th title published by Bantam.
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